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Activity Number:
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316
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Type:
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Invited
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Date/Time:
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Tuesday, July 31, 2007 : 2:00 PM to 3:50 PM
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Sponsor:
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Social Statistics Section
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| Abstract - #308025 |
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Title:
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Regression Discontinuity Analyses of the Effects of NCLB Accountability Provisions on Student Achievement
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Author(s):
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John R. Lockwood*+ and Brian P. Gill and Messan C. Setodji and Francisco Martorell
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Companies:
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RAND Corporation and RAND Corporation and RAND Corporation and RAND Corporation
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Address:
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4570 Fifth Avenue, Suite 600, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213,
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Keywords:
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No Child Left Behind ; longitudinal achievement data ; school accountability ; quasi-experimental analysis
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Abstract:
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The accountability provisions of the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act stipulate that each year, schools must meet academic proficiency targets in reading and mathematics or face sanctions and interventions aimed at improving student achievement. The academic proficiency targets determining whether schools make "adequate yearly progress" involve the percentages of all students, and of certain subgroups of students, who reach proficiency on annual state accountability assessments. These thresholds imply that schools are assigned to NCLB "treatment" groups on the basis of a cutscore on a continuous variable, providing the opportunity for regression discontinuity analyses of the impacts of the interventions. In this talk we discuss the application of these methods to both school-level and student-level measures of achievement to assess the impacts of certain NCLB provisions.
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